Make the Farm Bill a Food Bill
In an atypically short piece (at least for him) in the New York Times Magazine, Michael Pollan says the current farm bill being formulated in Congress "essentially treats our children as a human Disposall for all the unhealthful calories that the farm bill has encouraged American farmers to overproduce."
What's the answer? "The guiding principle behind an eater's farm bill could not be more straightforward: It's one that changes the rules of the game so as to promote the quality of our food (and farming) over and above its quantity."
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